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the last of the culture novels
Against a Dark Background is non-Culture but similar in style, and very good
The State of the Art is Culture short stories -
I started a binge read through of all of the Iain M Banks books - just started on Look to Windward most recently.
I was worried that, once he died, there would be a huge gap in the sort of SciFi that he wrote, and spent years trying to fill that with other authors.
I've realised, though, that (for me at least) there's enough work of his for there to be plenty of novelty during re-reads. Plenty that I've forgotten, and plenty that I've missed the times that I've read them before.
I even managed to get through Feersum Endjinn without having to read another book at the same time.
I found his non-scifi far more hit and miss, with probably more hit that miss. Rather than reread all of them, I usually stick to the same 3 or 4.
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I finished a book, do I get a prize?
Admittedly, not an ambitious read: player of games, by Iain Banks. A solid culture outing, perhaps not as compelling as some of his other offerings, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. A bit of a sad moment as I’ve been sitting on this one for a few years: the last of the culture novels that I had not yet read, I’d held off from reading it in the knowledge that once done, there weren’t any more coming. Sounds dumb, but pretty sad that it’s over.